Article May 11, 1912 Issue

Spiritual healing is healing through the power of the...

Frederick Dixon

South London Press

Spiritual healing is healing through the power of the divine Mind; therefore to limit this healing to functional disease is itself undertaking to limit the power of God. As a matter of fact, the medical profession is being driven to recognize more and more every day that all disease is organic, and that all disease originates in the human mind. Whether this is so or not, to argue that functional disease could be healed by an appeal to prayer, and that organic disease could not, would be to take up the position of Stephen Paget, who calmly declares, as a Christian doctrine, that prayer cannot reach the cells of the liver.

The claim of Christian healing is made by Christian Scientists solely in obedience to the demand of the Founder of the Christian religion; and any one will search the gospels, from first to last, without finding any limitations to that command. Jesus himself made no distinction between organic, functional, or nervous disease, and he stated his commands to his followers in the distinct order to preach the gospel and to heal the sick, declaring that those who believed in him, obviously who understood his preaching, would be able to do the works he did, obviously to demonstrate their understanding of that preaching.

The clergyman may begin by working with doctors, but he will very soon find that his patients are relying quite as much upon the doctor as upon prayer, and gradually he will begin to perceive what this means. If prayer can heal the sick, if an understanding of Jesus' teaching can do the work Jesus did in the first century, there is no necessity for the intervention of a doctor today.

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